The V8 Sleuth Podcast

Mar 04 2025 501 ep. 41 mins 463

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V8 Sleuth Aaron Noonan chats one-on-one with icons of Australian motorsport. Along with the big wins and the big moments, Noonz digs a step deeper and unearths a few forgotten tales and funny stories from their life in racing.

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V8SP Mini: The darkest point of David Reynolds’ career

Mar 04 2025 10 mins

This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast comes from our chat with David Reynolds almost exactly five years ago in March 2020, when he visited Sleuth HQ with his chauffeur for the day - future Supercars champ (and his then enduro co-driver) Will Brown! In this snippet, Reynolds opened up on a very serious topic: a tragic tarmac rally accident from the early part of

V8SP Mini: Brock & Skaife’s epic hire car race

Feb 25 2025 12 mins

This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast comes from our chat with Mark Skaife in our first season, recorded in his office back in 2019. In this snippet, released on what would have been Peter Brock’s 80th birthday, Skaifey talks about partnering up with the King of the Mountain in 1997, plus a fun tale involving the Brocky, a couple of hire cars, and a desperate

V8SP: Scott McLaughlin

Feb 18 2025 50 mins

Supercars champ-turned-IndyCar star Scott McLaughlin makes his second appearance on the V8 Sleuth Podcast for this week’s episode, recorded while he was at Sebring for pre-season testing with Team Penske. A lot has happened since his last visit to the pod back in 2020 so there’s plenty to talk about – including testing Porsche’s LMDh prototype sportscar at Sebring last week

V8SP Mini: Becoming the 'Supersub' for your dream team

Feb 11 2025 11 mins

This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast comes from our double episode with Jack Perkins, recorded at V8 Sleuth HQ back in 2021. In this snippet, Perkins talks about his dream call-up from the Holden Racing Team in 2015 - initially as a co-driver, then being suddenly promoted mid-weekend to the primary driver role after a bizarre incident injured James Courtney. He

V8SP: Q&A - Reporting sensitive stories, top 25 drivers since 2000, mid-season manufacturer swaps

Feb 04 2025 29 mins

You’ve asked and we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Shane Rogers tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast. Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions: - Our take on Supercars.com’s list of the Top 25 drivers since 2000 - How we go about investigating and reporting on sensitive stories - Teams that have switched manufacturers mi

V8SP Mini: Warnie’s role in Davison’s pursuit of F1 dream

Jan 28 2025 12 mins

This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast comes from our double episode with Will Davison, recorded at V8 Sleuth HQ way back in 2019. In this snippet, Davison talks about the cubic dollars that were required when he was pursuing his dream of racing in Formula 1 in the early 2000s and some of the things he did to raise it – including the help he had from Australian

V8SP: 2025 Bathurst 12 Hour: Everything you need to know

Jan 21 2025 56 mins

The V8 Sleuth Podcast looks ahead to next weekend’s Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour! Aaron Noonan is joined by the voice of Australia’s International Enduro, Richard Craill, to preview the 2025 edition of the country’s premier GT race. Buy the Official Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour Program https://bit.ly/4g4Whex Buy Bathurst: Going Global https://bit.ly/4bpWV5h V8 Sleuth Supers

V8SP Mini: How Volvo’s deal to enter Supercars came together

Jan 14 2025 10 mins

This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast comes from our episode with Garry Rogers, recorded at Garry Rogers Motorsport in 2021. We look back at the team’s much-beloved Volvo era, and how it was actually an entirely different manufacturer that he was chasing!. To listen to the rest of the chat from Episode 160, tap this link https://bit.ly/4fyHPuV Or, if you’d

V8SP Mini: How a six-pack of beer produced one of the great Bathurst 1000 TV openers

Jan 07 2025 5 mins

This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast features part of our epic two-part chat with Mark Larkham at his kitchen table back in 2022. In this snippet, he shares the inside story of the creation of Channel 10’s incredible intro to its broadcast of the 2017 Bathurst 1000, in which Larko gives an impassioned explanation of a lap of Mount Panorama. This Mini came fro

V8SP Mini: What Murph and Ambrose really said at The Cutting in 2005…

Dec 30 2024 8 mins

This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol is drawn from Supercars legend Greg Murphy’s first visit to the pod back in 2020. This snippet revolves around a regularly-mined topic come that special Sunday in October: his confrontation with Marcos Ambrose after they crashed out of the 2005 Bathurst 1000. We’d received so many National Motor Racing